Typewriting machine



April 1, 1924; V

J. FELBEL TYPEWRITING MACHINE 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed May 14, 1923 2 IHIHII WITNESSES Z WMZ INVENTEIR QM 7 M 1,488,782 J. FELBEL 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 TYPEWRITING MACHINE Filed May 14, 1923 April 1, 19245 INVENTUR WITNESSES K Patented Apr. 1, 1924.

;;lTED STATES 1,488,782 PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB FELBEL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGN'O'R TO' REMINGTON TYPEWRITER COM- PANY, 0F ILION, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

TYPEWRITING MACHINE.

. Application filed May 14,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J A0013 FELBEL, citizen of the United States, and resident of the borough of Manhattan, city of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Typewriting Machines, of which the following is a specificas tion.

My invention relates to typewriting machines and has for its general object the provision of improved collating devices for such machines. More specifically the object of my invention is to provide a collating board or plate which may readily be applied to and detached from a typewriting machine so that while detached and resting on the desk or table, work sheets may conveniently be arranged or collated ,on the board which may thereafter be applied to the machine.

To the above and other ends which will hereinafter appear, my invention consists in the features of construction, combinations of devices and arrangements of parts hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

One form of my invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a fragmentary front-toerear vertical sectional view showing the platen carriage of a No. 10 Remington typewriting machine with my invention applied thereto.

Figure 2 is a face viewof the collating board or plate detached.

Figure 3 is a fragmentary transverse sectional view taken on the plane indicated by the section line 11 in Fig. 1 and looking in the direction of the arrow at said line.

Figure 4: is a fragmentary perspective new of one of the guides for the collating board; and

Figure 5 is a front view of Fig. 1 but with the platen of the machine and other parts omitted.

As appears from Fig. 1, the top plate 1 of the machine has arranged above it fixed grooved track bars 2 and 3 which co operate through anti-friction rollers with the front bar 5 and rear bar 6 of a carriage truck which further includes connecting end bars 7. Shiftably supported on said truck by de vices including links 8, is a platen frame or carrier, comprising end bars 9 having rearward extensions 9 which are connected by a cross rod or bar 10. Rotatively mounted on 1923. Serial No. 638,884.

the platen carrier is a cylindrical platen 11, with the front face of which co-operate printing instrumentalities or type bars 12. The platen carrier and platen are shiftable up and down on the truck 5, 6, 7 to change case as is usual in the Remington machine. Co-operative with the platen at its under side are main and secondary feed rollers numbered respectively 13 and 14 and a curved paper apron or deflector 15. The feed rollers are releasable by the usual devices comprising a release rock shaft 16 arranged behind the platen and bearing rotatively in the end bars 9. A release key or handle 17 is secured to the left-hand end portion of the rock shaft 16 and is operative to release or throw off the rollers 13 and 14; to the dotted line positions shown in Fig. 1. The traveling carriage, comprising the truck 5, 6, 7 and the shiftable carrier or frame 9, 10, is controlled by the usual spring drum and escapement devices, not shown; and it is to be understood that other necessary mechanism of the Remington machine not herein disclosed is preferably to be employed, although of course, the invention may be readily adapted to other existing styles of writing machines.

In carrying out the preferredform of my invention, I provide upright side arms or bracket members 18 having hubs 19 and 20 8 which extend inward from the side arms. The hubs 19 fit over the cross bar 10 which is fixed to the end bars 9, said hubs 19 receiving set screws 21 which secure the bracket arms 18 to said cross bar 10. The hubs 2O fit loosely over the rock shaft 16 so that said shaft may be rocked or operated by its re lease key without interference. The construction is such that the side arms 18 are held in fixed relationship to the platen frame near the end bars 9, said arms, to gether with the collating board hereinafter described and which is supported by them, participating in the up and down case shifting movements of the platen and platen carrier on the carriage truck, this having been found to be desirable, although of course if desired, the collating devices may have a non-shifting support. The arms or supports 18 while preferably made detachable in some maner such as that described may of course be formed integral with the end bars 9 of the platen frame. Near their upper ends the arms 18 are connected by a tie-rod or cross bar 22, the end portions whereof are secured in fixed relationship to the arms 18 by pairs of clamping nuts 23. Forward of and somewhat below the tierod 22 the arms 18 are provided with inturned lips or ledges 24, and secured to the inner faces of the side arms above the ledges 24 are guide members or troughs 25. The guide members are preferably formed each of a single piece of sheet metal bent to a U- shape in cross section and comprising parallel side walls ,26 and a connecting cross portion 27, the bottom of which contacts with the inner face of the companion side arms 18 and is secured thereagainst in any suitable Way, as by spot welding or riveting, thus fixing the troughs 25 to the arms 18. The upper end portions 28 of the walls 26 are curved or bent away from each other to provide a flaring mouth or entrance-way to the trough or guide. The two guide members 25 are disposed somewhat in rear of the platen and are inclined upward and rearward so that they may conveniently receive the collating board.

The collating board or paper holding contrivance which is designated as a whole by the number 29, is shown detached in Fig. 2. Said board or paper holder comprises a flat rectangular plate 30 made of any suitable material and properly faced to receive work sheets. The term collating board is herein employed in the sense in which said term has come to be used in connection with typewriting machines, and does not, of course, refer to the material of which the plate or board 30 is made, which material may be light metal, wood, or some composition or whatever else may be found suitable. Near its lower end the plate 30 is formed with inwardlyextending cut-outs or open-mouthed slots indicated by the numeral 31, and at the left-hand side its face is provided with sets of indicating marks 32, these sets of marks or scales being preferably one near the top and one near the bottom of the board.

Fixed to the side edges of the board 30 and projecting laterally-therefrom are pairs of engaging devices or pins 33, these pins being slotted or kerfed to fit over the side edges of the board and being secured in place by cross pins or rivets 34. The pins are of such diameter thatthey may pass readily into the co-operating guideways 25 and may fit between the side Walls 26 thereof without any tendency to rattle, as clearly appears from Fig. 3, said figure also showing that side thrust is limited by the bottoms of said ways. The left-hand pair .-1 of pins are drilled out to receive the reduced bearing ends of a rod or shaft 35 which is disposed outside of the left-hand edge of the board 30 and provides asupport for a device for holding the paper or work sheet in place on the face of the plate 30.

The said paper holding device may be of any suitable character. As herein illustrated it is the form of a spring pressed clamping contriva-nce, designated as a. whole by the numeral 36. Said clamping contrivance is preferably made of a single piece of sheet metal cut out to provide a bar-like body portion 37 having inwardly projecting fingers 38 which may-becurved or rounded sothat they may engage smoothly with the paper. In the present instance there are three of these fingers, one at the top of the bar portion 37 one at the bottom, and a third midway between the top and bottom fingers. Projecting leftward from the body portion 37 is a bearing portion 39 which is curved at its left-hand end so as to fit around and partly embrace the rod 35. Centrally the bearing portion 39 is cut away as indicated at 40, the inner edge of the cutout being bent up to provide a lip or finger piece 41. Surrounding the portion of the rod 35 that is exposed by the cutout 40 is a coiled wire spring 42. the lower end of which extends inward and bears on the plate 30 and the upper end extending over the top face of the part 39. The tendency of the spring 42 is to maintain the clamping fingers 38 in operative contact with the paper on the plate 30 and to restore said fingers to operative contact after the clamp has been swung away from the plate on the rod 35 as an axis and thereafter released.

It will be observed that the collating board or contrivance 2-9 has its under side clear and unobstructed so that when detached it may be laid on a typewriter desk or table in position to have the work sheet or sheets conveniently applied thereto. In some cases, single work sheets may be clamped to the plate 30,'but my invention is more particularly adapted for collating or assembling operations in connection with a lurality of work sheets, these sheets overying one another and receiving duplicate entries through the regular ribbon and one ormore interleaved carbon sheets. The work sheets may be of substantially the same'dimensions lengthwise or widthwise or in both directions, or maydiffer as to such stated that the terms inner and outer in connectioniwith the sheets have reference to their relationship when fed over the platen and especially when at the printing point, it

being understood that the relationship is reversed when the sheets are applied to the collating board. As a preliminary to adjusting 32 and with its lower end below the bottom,

edge of the board 30. A carbon sheet 45 ('Fig. 3) of the same dimensions as the bill sheet is applied with or to the bill sheet but faced upward so that it will off-set on the record sheet -13.

Usually, of course, this record sheet will contain prior entries thus necessitating adjustment relatively to the bill sheet so that when the type impressions are made, the first item or line of writing on the bill sheet will be duplicated on the record sheet directly following the last preceding entry thereon, as is well understood. The two Sheets with the carbon having been adjusted or collated in desired relationship, and with their leading ends projecting far enough below the bottom of the plate 30 so as at least to reach beyond the point where the main feed roller 13 contacts with the platen, the clampin contrivance 36 is released and returned y its spring 12 so that the fingers 38 will co-oper-ate with the plate 30 to hold the sheets 43--4=445 in collated relationship on the plate 30. The spring 42 while comparatively light exerts sufficient pressure on the fingers 38 to enable them to overcome ordinary tendencies towards accidental displacement .of the sheets. i

The feed rollers 13 and 14 having been released by the actuation of the key or finger piece 17 the operator next lifts the collating board 29 with the assembled or collated work sheets supported and retained thereon, and attaches the contrivance to the platen carriageef the machine, applying the lower attaching devices or pins 33 at each side to the flaring mouth or entrance-way 28 of the guides or attaching devices 25, and'allowing the board or contrivance 29 to slide down between the side walls 26 until arrested in predetermined relationship with the platen. Preferably this arrest is effected by adjustable abutments or screw stops 46 which are threaded up through the ledges 24 and project into the lower ends of the guide-ways, said pins being secured in adjusted positions by check nuts 47. The downward sliding movement of the collating board will continue until the lower pins 33 I engage with the tops of the stop screws 46, as

shown in Fig. 1, the upper pins engagingments of the collating board or plate. -The parts are so proportioned and arranged that when thus arrested the lower end of the plate 29 will be close to but above the main feed roller 13 in rear of the platen, and the lower ends of the collated sheets will have passed around the rear and under sides of the platen and between it and the defiector 15 to a greater or less extent. As a result, when the feed rollers 13 and A are restored to operative contact, they, or in any event the main roller 13, will co-operate with the lower or advanced ends of the collated sheets and will feed them forward and upward at the front side of the platen in collated relationship when the platen is line spaced in the usual way or otherwise turned, the pressure of the spring 42 on the fingers 38 being so light as not to interfere to any practical extent with the feeding operations. But if desired the clamping contrivance 36 may be locked off at this time, as it may be in the assembling of the sheets as before explained. If for any purpose, it is desired to backfeed the sheets, the feed rollers 13- and 14 are thrown off and the operator grasps the side edges of the sheets, referably opposite the cutouts 31 in the p ate 30, and pulls upward to the desired extent, the cutouts affording convenient entrance-ways for the fingers of the operator.

After the completion of the entries on the collated sheets, they may be withdrawn from the machine as by feeding upward at the front side of the platen, and next the collating board 29 may be detached from the carriage by sliding or lifting it up out of its guide-ways, the operator then being ready to repeat the collating. operations above outlined on a desk or table. It will be understood, of course, that these outlined operations have been given merely b way of example, that the collating boar may be employed in connection with other forms of typewritingoas may be found convenient; and that various constructional changes may be efi'ected without departing from the invention.

What ll claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a typewriting machine, the combination of a paper carriage and a collating board detachable from the paper carriage for placement on a table or desk for the assembling and fixing of the work sheets, and re-connectible with said carriage with the leading ends of the fixed sheets in proper relation to the paper feed mechanism.

2. In a typewriting machine, the combination of a platen, throw-oil feed mechanism co-operative therewith, a collating board detachable from the machine for placement on a table or desk for the assembling of the work sheets, and re-attachable to the machine in predetermined relationship With the platen such that the leading ends of the paper are brought into position to be gripped by said feed mechanism, when restored to normal.

3. A collating board which is provided with means for retaining Work sheets in relatively adjusted positions, and which may be readily attached to and detached from a typewriting machine.

4. Acollating board provided with attaching devices for co-operation with a typewriting machine enabling the board to be readily attached to and detached from the machine for collating purposes, and also provided with a paper holding device.

5. In a typewriting machine having a platen, the combination of a detachable collating plate, attaching devices carried by said plate, other attaching devices on said machinery co-operative with the attaching devices carried by the plate to retain said plate in a predetermined relationship with said platen, and means on said plate for retaining Work sheets in relatively adjusted positions, both While said plate is detached from and attached to the machine.

6. In a .typewriting machine, the combination of a platen, a carriage, a paper holding plate attachable to and detachable from said carriage, and paper retaining devices on said plate.

7. In a typewriting machine, the combination of a carriage truck, a platen frame shiftably supported on said truck, a platen on said frame, supports on said frame, a collating board detachably mountedon said supports, and devices co-operative With said board to retain a plurality of Work sheets in collated relationship.

8. In a typewriting machine, the combination of a platen, a platen carriage, guideways on said carriage, a collating plate, projections on said plate co-operative with said guide-Ways to detachably retain said plate in co-operativerelationship with said platen, and devices mounted on said plate for retaining Work sheets in collated relationship thereon.

9. In a typewriting machine, the combination of a platen, a platen carriage, troughs on said carriage, a collating plate, pairs of pins projecting laterally from the sides of said plate and co-operative with said troughs, and adjustable abntments at the lower ends of said troughs contactive With certain of said pins to arrest said plate in predetermined relationship with said platen.

10. In a typewriting machine, the combination of a platen, a carriage, a paper holding plate attachable to and detachable from said carriage at each collating operation, and spring pressed paper clamping fingers mounted on said plate ,and co-opeirative therewith to retain Work sheets inadjusted positions on said plate.

11. In a typewriting machine, the combination of a platen, a carriage, a paper holding plate detachablyisupported on said carriage, and spring pressed paper clamping fingers mounted on said plate, said plate being provided with cut-outs at its sides for conveniently manipulating the Work sheets.

12. In a typewriting machine, the combination of a platen, .a platen frame, arms extending upward from said frame in rear of the platen, guideways on said arms, and a collating board slidably engaged with said guideways. Signed at the borough of Manhattan, city of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 11th day of May, A. D. 1923.

JACOB FELBEL.

.Witnesses:

CHARLES E. SMITH, LILLIAN NELSON. 

